The Military Revolution and Revolutions in Military Affairs updates two central debates in
military history--the one surrounding the concept of military revolution and the one on
military affairs--whilst advancing original research in both fields. Only a handful of
publications consider the military revolution and the RMA in tandem. This book breaks new
ground conceptually and appeals to an exceptionally large and diverse readership. Comparative
revisionist studies of the military revolution and RMA better enable us to comprehend the
historical continuum and reveal the new RMA for what it is. And for what it is shortly to
become. This book presents original contributions within the epicentre of the military
revolution debate the 1500s with an emphasis on gunpowder revolution (offensively and
defensively). The connections with the Revolution in Military Affairs are then made explicit by
scholars a practitioner and an analyst with an emphasis on airborne lethal autonomous
weapons systems. This is a chronologically broad and unique methodological approach to a
historical debate that begs for clarification as we enter an era where killer robots will
almost certainly take from humans their monopoly on violence.
